Terence Hill

Acting · 3.2 popularity

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Born: March 29, 1939
From: Venice, Veneto, Kingdom of Italy [Now Italy]
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Biography

Terence Hill (born Mario Girotti; 29 March 1939) is an Italian actor, film director, screenwriter and film producer. He began his career as a child actor and gained international fame for starring roles in action and comedy films, many with his long-time film partner and friend Bud Spencer. During the height of his popularity, Hill was among Italy's highest-paid actors. His most widely seen films include comic and standard spaghetti Westerns, some based on popular novels by German author Karl May about the Wild West. Of these, the most famous are Lo chiamavano Trinità (They Call Me Trinity, 1970); ...continuavano a chiamarlo Trinità (Trinity Is Still My Name, 1971), the highest grossing Italian film at that time; and Il mio nome è Nessuno (My Name Is Nobody, 1973), co-starring Henry Fonda. Hill also went on to a successful television career in Italy, most notably playing the title character in the long-running Rai 1 series Don Matteo from 2000 until 2022. Hill was born on 29 March 1939 in Venice, Italy. Hill's mother, Hildegard Girotti (née Thieme), was from Dresden, Germany; his father, Girolamo Girotti, was Italian from Amelia, Umbria, and a chemist by occupation. During his childhood, Hill lived in the small town of Lommatzsch, Saxony. As a child, he experienced the bombing of Dresden, which was traumatic for him. He was there up to the End of World War II in Europe. He was discovered at the age of 12 by Italian filmmaker Dino Risi at a swimming meet, and he became a child actor, appearing in Risi's Vacation with a Gangster (1951) as Gianni, the orphan gang leader. "They were looking for a boy gang leader and they found me", he later said. He had small roles in Voice of Silence (1953) with Jean Marais, Too Young for Love (1953), and It Happened in the Park (1953). He was in Golden Vein (1954) with Märta Torén and Richard Basehart, The Abandoned (1955) and Folgore Division (1955). Girotti had his first lead in Guaglione (1956). He could also be seen in Mamma sconosciuta (1956), I vagabondi delle stelle (1956), La grande strada azzurra (1956) with Yves Montand and Alida Valli, and Lazzarella (1957). Girotti did Anna of Brooklyn (1958) with Gina Lollobrigida, The Sword and the Cross (1958) with Yvonne de Carlo (playing Lazarus of Bethany), and a TV version of The Picture of Dorian Gray (1958). He had support parts in Il padrone delle ferriere (1959) with Virna Lisi, Juke box - Urli d'amore (1959), and Hannibal (1959) with Victor Mature and Carlo Pedersoli, who would later become known as Bud Spencer. Girotti had the lead roles in Spavaldi e innamorati (1959) and Cerasella (1959), a teen comedy. It was back to support roles with Carthage in Flames (1960), Un militare e mezzo (1960), and The Story of Joseph and His Brethren (1961) with Geoffrey Horne and Robert Morley, directed by Irving Rapper. Girotti had support parts in The Wonders of Aladdin (1961) with Donald O'Connor and directed by Henry Levin and Mario Bava, Pecado de amor (1961), Seven Seas to Calais (1962) with Rod Taylor, and The Shortest Day (1963). ... Source: Article "Terence Hill" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA.

Works

96 films

They Call Me Trinity

19707.6

Trinity Is Still My Name

19717.4

The Leopard

19637.7

Crime Busters

19777.0

My Name Is Nobody

19737.3

Watch Out, We're Mad

19747.5

Double Trouble

19847.0

Who Finds a Friend Finds a Treasure

19816.9

Go for It

19837.0

Super Fuzz

19806.5

I'm for the Hippopotamus

19796.8

Last of the Renegades

19646.7

God Forgives... I Don't!

19676.6

Troublemakers

19946.2

Miami Supercops

19856.4

All the Way Boys

19726.8

A Genius, Two Friends, and an Idiot

19756.3

The Two Missionaries

19746.5

March or Die

19775.8

Boot Hill

19695.9

Flaming Frontier

19656.2

Mr. Billion

19775.5

Ace High

19686.5

Django, Prepare a Coffin

19686.3

Rampage at Apache Wells

19656.3

Lucky Luke

19915.4

The Socceritos

20266.0

It Happened in the Park

19536.5

Man of the East

19726.6

Blackie the Pirate

19715.8

Whom the Gods Wish to Destroy

19666.5

Frontier Hellcat

19646.4

Renegade

19876.1

The Golden Vein

19556.7

Hannibal

19595.6

Divisione Folgore

19546.5

The Street of Hope

19536.0

The Shortest Day

19636.4

Doc West

20096.2

Don Camillo

19845.7

The Wonders of Aladdin

19615.3

Doc West II : Triggerman

20096.3

Pecado de amor

19614.9

Joseph and His Brethren

19616.2

Wrath of the Wind

19705.1

The Crazy Westerners

19675.7

Terence Hill, Bud Spencer… & me

2025

Piedone nyomában

20186.7

Guaglione

19566.8

Whom the Gods Wish to Destroy 2

19676.5

Virtual Weapon

19975.7

A Soldier and a Half

19607.2

The Sword and the Cross

19583.4

I vagabondi delle stelle

19567.0

Carthage in Flames

19605.2

Seven Seas to Calais

19625.5

Rita the Field Marshal

19675.2

ORG

19795.1

Duel at Sundown

19655.8

Das Schwert der Nibelungen

197610.0

Vacation with a Gangster

19527.2

The Hassled Hooker

19726.3

Denn sie kennen kein Erbarmen - Der Italowestern

20066.5

Terence Hill: Pazifist und Cowboy

20256.0

Voice of Silence

19537.0

Ruf der Wälder

19654.7

The Tough and the Mighty

19696.4

Lazzarella

19576.3

Juke Box - Screams of Love

19595.0

The Age of Indiscretion

19538.5

The Last Movie Painter

20207.4

Fast and Sexy

19585.6

They Called Him Spencer

20176.8

The Wide Blue Road

19576.3

Io non protesto, io amo

19676.5

My Name Is Thomas

20185.8

Abandoned

19557.0

They call me Lucky Luke - Ma Dalton

1991

Il padrone delle ferriere

19597.3

Shots in 3/4 Time

19657.8

Klaus Kinski: I'm not an actor

2000

Vier Fäuste lassen's krachen

2004

Lucky Luke 2

19925.5

Cerasella

19596.8

Mamma sconosciuta

19567.0

Spavaldi e innamorati

19597.0

Caterina Caselli - Una vita, 100 vite

20218.5

Nobody is Perfect

2005

Lui era Trinità

2023

L'uomo che sognava con le aquile

20066.7

Il Novelliere - Il salotto di Oscar Wilde

1958

Bud's Best - Die Welt des Bud Spencer

20126.5

Le 1000 vite di Bud Spencer

201910.0

Die Terence Hill Story

2019

On l'appelle Terence Hill

20226.2

Odds and Evens

19787.0